It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.
AristotleThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
AristotleHe who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
AristotleThe state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
AristotleSo we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
AristotleBut since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.
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